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Bats win nightcap 1-0 to split DH

By: Jim Massie

The Columbus Dispatch - July 06, 2013 10:43 PM

Louisville's Mike Hessman broke up a perfect game by Columbus pitchers tonight in Huntington
Park in the fifth inning with a one-out home run and lifted the Bats to a 1-0 win and a
doubleheader split. Columbus won the first game 4-0.

The Clippers went to reliever Bryan Price to start the game and he pitched three perfect
innings. Fernando Nieve (4-2) followed and worked a perfect fourth. He got the first out in the
fifth before Hessman launched his 19th home run of the season into the bleachers in left. The Bats
had just one more hit, a seventh-inning double by Henry Rodriguez.

Columbus missed a chance to jump out to the early lead in the first inning against Pedro
Villarreal. Ezequiel Carrera led off with a single and Ryan Rohlinger drew a walk. Tim Fedroff
followed with a single to load the bases. Villarreal stopped the rally there.

He got Chun-Hsui Chen to ground back to the mound. He threw home to force
Carrera. Villarreal then struck out Matt Carson and got Juan Diaz to ground back to
the mound to end the inning.

The Clippers managed just one more hit and one more threat. Reliever Zach
Duke hit Nate Spears with a pitch and Fedroff singled. Nick Christiani (5-2) entered and
retired Chen on a pop fly to third baseman Henry Rodriguez and got a broken-bat double play
ball from Carson. It marked the 13th time this season that the Clippers have been shut
out.

Columbus played both games without second baseman Cord Phelps (right wrist). He is listed as day
to day.